Watch List notes:

CRUSADERS. Antioch. Tancred, regent, 1101-1112. Follis (Bronze, 24 mm, 5.38 g). Bust of Christ, nimbate, facing; in fields, IC -XC. Rev. Cross pommetée, fleuronnée at base; in angles, TA/NK/P/H . Malloy 5. Metcalf 81. Porteous 19. Traces of overstriking, otherwise, very fine.


From a collection of Arab-Byzantine and Crusader coins, formed in the 1990s.

This coin was overstruck on another follis of Tancred (Malloy 6, Metcalf 78 and Porteous 18, see lot 1364 below), with considerable parts of the undertype still visible.